CPR save

I am so pumped from last night after our crappy meeting I thought it was going to be a boring night nope not a chance as soon as i got home for about twenty min and starting to relax I heard the page go out for Berlin primary to respond to the sheriff's dept for an inmate that was bleeding from the head and turning blue dam it I yelled thats us why have they not paged us yet I am going it is a block from my Apartment I got there in record as usual they took for ever to open the doors I started to run down the hall with the other first responders in tow behind me as I round the corner into the cell I see an adult male lying on the ground life less and blue in the face as blue berry and blood all over the cell from the floor to the walls great I thinking another messy call. theres the jailer on the floor she has the AED hooked up and in panicked voice she asked what to do I said start chest compressions I am getting the combi-tube ready after dodging all the blood I got to the guy finally and started to stick my fingers in his mouth to do a tongue jaw lift I noticed that his mouth fall of blood and his teeth was loose I was thinking (A) he has facial trauma which is going to make things harder to do or (B) he has dentures. After I found out that it was answer B I was so happy so I suctioned the airway and removed the teeth I was good to go the tube slid right in and got it inflated and started to vent him so pumping and breathing for him about ten min because Berlin is about a 15 to 20 min drive and they want to use Berlin because they want to keep all inmates in the county or other wise it would have been faster for Ripon to show. so we have been pumping and bagging now for awhile when we stopped for a rhythm check we noticed movement in the neck and the start of agonal breathing yeaaaaaaaaaaaa he is coming around so Berlin gets there we put a line in him hook up a monitor and load him to the cot which is fun because there is no room in the jail at all so you can just imagine you have three deputy's, two jailer's, three EMTs, and six responders in there so yep its like a clown car full of clowns so we get him loaded and one of the first responder went with the ambulance to help because with a PNB you need at least three in the back one pumping one bagging and one pushing meds or other stuff to be done.so I told him I would pick him up at BMH as I went back into the jail to grab my gear as one of the jailer was holding a bag of red goo asked if I wanted to take it up to BMH I said sure why not just slap it in a bio-hazard bag and I will give to them up there so I got there handed over the red goo to the nurse and started chit chatting with the EMT's and the deputy's on the way up there they gave him some narcan which reverses the effects of narcotics in the system once they gave him that he started to come around a little more and blood pressure begin to rise and pulse was picking up yes we saved him I was so happy I heard that theda star was inbound and eight min out I was going to stick around and watch the helio land. Come to find out the inmate had a BAC of 2. something and he had barbiturates in his system and has a history of seizures not a good mix but we brought him back minus the large wound on the back of his head to come to find out thats where all that dam blood was coming from. the deputy's were so happy that he made it because it means less paper work for them to do if he had not made it and died in his cell then the cell would become a crime scene and thats means lots of paperwork for them. oh and by the way one of the deputy's on last night was Kevin the one I asked for directions on how to get back to green lake well he said to me I see you found green lake all right i said yep took me awhile but I found it he laughed.

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